Posted on 11/09/2012 2:20:30 PM PST by Red Steel
The race for Florida’s 18th Congressional district has taken an ugly turn, with charges of incompetence, illegal activity and possible fraud on the part of local election officials. Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy has declared victory with an apparent 160,328 votes to West's 157,872. However, serious questions arose immediately about the integrity of the vote count, especially in St. Lucie County. On election night incumbent Republican Allen West had maintained a district-wide lead of nearly 2000 votes until the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections inexplicably “recounted” thousands of early ballots, resulting in 4,400 vote shift
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A physical barrier had been erected making it impossible for the observers to see what was going on. After repeated objections, the observers were allowed to stand behind the people reproducing the ballots. But then the ballot workers blocked their view. “Half of the people reproducing the ballots are crowding together,” Mr. Shapiro said, “to make it impossible for anyone to see what they are doing.” He added that “there is a sense that since they spend so much time obstructing our view they are not reproducing [the ballots] correctly.”
An elderly man who stood up to try to get a better look at the ballots was ordered to sit down. When he asked why, Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher called a sheriff’s deputy to have him escorted out of the building. Team West volunteer Ellen Snyder has also faced the wrath of the supervisory staff. “They screamed at me twice”
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“I've never experienced anything like it,” Mr. Shapiro said. He is a former Democrat and had worked on John Kerry’s 2004 campaign legal team. He noted that he was treated much better by Democratic supervisors when he was a fellow party member. But now he is being treated like an enemy.
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Bingo. We so-called birthers and our concerns about the corrupted, fraudulent and hidden history fed to America will never see the light of day either. But we are in good company with the Solyndra family of scandals, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the ‘coincidences’ of this election including why no voter i.d. states went for Obama or why Mitt got 3 million+ fewer votes than McCain or how it is that Philadelphia gets 99% voter turnout in many precincts/ward yet has a lower total vote than in 2008.
I think it was a guy named Joe Stalin who said, “it doesn’t matter who votes, what matters is who counts the votes.”
What else would you expect from a forger, liar, and who knows what else? Certainly not free and fair elections.
“This race was stolen and rigged, they had 4 years of prepping for this and I;m in FL and there is no way the middle part of the state went obama.
He got less than 5000 at a rally just before the election and yet he won that area!!! NO CHANCE he did”
It’s the media. The left leaning media will NOT NOT NOT NOT do their jobs and expose the truth. They run as far from it as they can as fast as they can.
we need to get together all talk radio, sites like this and do mass e-mails to these outlets and demand they tell the truth, hell I;d protest at their HQ’s if need be.
Called his office, left prayers, hope and HOO RAH from and old plane jumper...dang, Palm Beachis more liberal that Pompano...lotta kooks down you. Prayers up. GOOO ALLAN WEST!!
You and I sit here posting our opinions to each other while Allen West actually is trying to do something about fraud and illegal voting. I hope he exposes the fraudsters. He’s a doer, you and I are talkers. Maybe we both should reserve opinion on what Allen West is or isn’t doing because neither of us can live up to his political hard work, integrity and ideals.
I agree. I think we ALL have to withdrew enmasse, a form of passive secession.
On the St. Lucie County Super. of Elections website it states:
“The CANVASSING BOARD meeting scheduled for the recount on saturday, november 10, 2012 at 7:00 am has been rescheduled for wednesday, november 14, 2012 at 7:00 am at the supervisor of elections office, 4132 okeechobee road mall entrance 2.”
In Martin County, to the South, Allen West handily defeated Murphy 56% to 42%. It is almost a mirror flipped image in St. Lucie County to the North. The significance of 8K military absentee ballots in this county cannot be minimized.
The Supervisor of Elections in St. Lucie is Gertrude Walker, who is a democrat who has conducted only this 2012 election, no prior experience in election supervising,although “certified” by FL State.Worked under two prior predecessors for the past 12 years (including the 2000 election debacle). Smelling a major ‘rat’ at work against Allen.
Here is her information: http://elections.tcpalm.com/candidates/gertrude-walker
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012-election-results/
In addition, as far as I know the states all release county by county vote counts, and that is where some strange stuff can be found such as over 90% turnouts in many democrat counties. I'm getting the impression that vote fraud was worse in this election than in 2004 and 2008, but at this point I doubt that vote fraud is the main reason why Romney lost. He lost mainly because of low turnout of Republicans and conservative independents, and at a purely logistical level I think it would be very difficult for democrat vote counters to find millions of ballots with vote for Romney and discard all those ballots. There's just not enough time to do that and there are usually Republican observers watching the vote counting, which has to be done by machines because of the huge number of ballots counted in just a few hours.
My belief is that Romney's turnout was suppressed more by Obama's vicious smear machine of negative advertising, and vote fraud is a relatively minor factor in this election. That's my take on it right now, but I just started reading about all the strange vote counts and my opinion could change.
Here’s a working link to county by county vote counts. (Not sure why the first link didn’t work).
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012-election-results/
We tried the ballot box. It failed to be free and fair on a national basis..
Now we must fight. Will we have the stomach for it?
If not, the Republic is doomed.It succumbs to liberal fascism.
Allen West’s District included Palm Beach County where the celebrated Susan Bucher is Elections Supervisor.
She is rabid democrat.
Here is here response to the State of Florida requiring purge of non citizens from voter list-— note she says that people who were not citizens in 2000 “probably are citizens now”— no facts, and no basis for saying this.
She was a State Rep and term limited out in 2008. Black activists from Escondido, CA by birth. An apparatchik.
Are you being facetious or are you just plain crazy?
There is no more politics. If the GOP allows this fraud, it is the end of politics.
Good research. Thanks
Even in war, there are politics.
Probably a little bit of both, or crazy like a fox. It’s time to let America have what it has asked for with the past two elections. If America wanted Obama stopped, it could have been done. I’m guessing, and purely guessing, that Americans are not going to like what comes the next four years. Of course, it may be too late for that to matter when the next presidential election comes. It may be too late for it to matter now.
West need not be afraid of my opinion, and you are free to express yours whenever you please. Otherwise, what’s the point of West working to protect liberty?
I read that there were 97,000 + votes than registered voters in the St.Lucie democrat run, democrat stoned district. An evil day indeed and the pubs are already lying down dead as usual while the dead voters and the illegal voters vote democrat.
Some of us can’t and don’t want to see the devastation of our businesses and families by “waiting them out”. Sick of that tactic... been there done that. I am willing to go toe to toe with them and fight for this Republic (and I’m no spring chickie).
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